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van der Vegt, N. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Peters, D.J. (author), van Gent, M.R.A. (author), Hofland, Bas (author)
Initial damage, caused by previous wave loading or other events, might affect the hydraulic stability of pattern-placed revetments. Three common types of damage are considered in this study. The effect of this assumed initial damage on the hydraulic stability and failure probability of revetments is quantified using a FEM model. This model is...
journal article 2024
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Klerk, W.J. (author), van Bergeijk, Vera (author), Kanning, W. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author), Kok, M. (author)
The condition of flood defence revetments is influenced by many different degradation processes such as animal burrowing, rutting and growth of weeds. Many of these processes are shock-based rather than progressive continuous. As shocks can cause a drop in performance, this means that the condition of a revetment can suddenly decrease,...
journal article 2023
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Klerk, W.J. (author)
Many countries rely on flood defence systems to prevent economic damage and loss-of-life due to catastrophic floods. Asset managers of flood defence systems need to cope with the consequences of structural degradation, and changing societal and environmental conditions, in order to satisfy performance requirements and optimize societal value of...
doctoral thesis 2022
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van der Krogt, M.G. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author)
book chapter 2022
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Klerk, W.J. (author)
book chapter 2022
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Chotkan, S.A. (author), van der Meij, Raymond (author), Klerk, Wouter Jan (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Aguilar Lopez, J.P. (author)
In this paper, we aim to identify factors affecting susceptibility to drought-induced cracking in levees and use them to build a machine learning model that can identify crack-prone levees on a regional scale. By considering the key relationship between the size of cracks and the moisture content, we observed that low moisture contents act as...
journal article 2022
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Kok, M. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author)
Climate change and deterioration require a continuous effort to reinforce flood defences and meet reliability requirements. To efficiently upgrade flood defence systems, insight in costs and benefits of measures at a system level is required throughout the process of planning and design. Due to the size of flood defence systems the number of...
journal article 2021
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Kok, M. (author), Bronsveld, J. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author)
Prioritisation of flood defence maintenance is typically based on visual inspection. However, literature shows that the Probability of Detection (PoD) of visual inspection can vary significantly. Here we investigate the PoD for visual inspections of flood defence structures, the consistency of damage classification, and the influence of...
journal article 2021
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Vonk, Bart (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Fröhle, Peter (author), Gersonius, Berry (author), Heijer, Frank Den (author), Jordan, Philipp (author), Ciocan, Ulf Radu (author), Rijke, Jeroen (author), Sayers, Paul (author), Ashley, Richard (author)
Uncertainties about climate change consequences, changing societal requirements and system complexity require flood protection asset managers to continuously evaluate their asset management policies and practice to manage risk and improve the resilience of their assets. However, there are many challenges in doing this, with asset operators...
journal article 2020
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van der Krogt, M.G. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), Kok, M. (author)
Spatial variability and limited measurements often result in low reliability estimates of geotechnical failure modes of dikes (i.e., earthen flood defences). Required dike reinforcements are usually not executed within a few years after inception, which enables efforts to improve reliability estimates by reducing uncertainty. Often decision...
journal article 2020
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Kanning, W. (author), van Veen, Nelle-Jan (author)
Many flood defences in the Netherlands will have to be reinforced in the coming decades. Many dikes do not fulfill the safety standard due to geotechnical failure modes, largely due to epistemic, reducible uncertainties. . The Value of Information is a measure to indicate beforehand whether an investment towards reducing epistemic uncertainty is...
conference paper 2019
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Pot, R. (author), Van Der Hammen, J. M. (author), Wojciechowska, K. (author)
For asset management of flood defences a pivotal aspect is the quality and accessibility of available data and information. In the management of flood defences inThe Netherlands, safety assessments are conducted every twelve years. To assure the quality and consistency of these safety assessments, flood defence engineers have to make use of a...
conference paper 2019
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Thöns, Sebastian (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Köhler, Jochen (author)
This paper provides an overview, insights, results and a classification related to development and analyses of case studies within the scientific networking project COST Action TU1402 on the value of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) information. With an outline of the framework and approaches, a procedure on how to quantify the value of SHM...
conference paper 2019
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Dupuits, E.J.C. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), de Bruijn, K. M. (author)
In risk analysis of riverine flood defence systems, sections of flood defences are often considered separately, herewith ignoring their interdependence, e.g. due to the hydraulic response following dike breaches in the system. In previous studies it has been found that such interdependence can have a significant influence on flood risk estimates...
journal article 2019
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Curran, A.N. (author), de Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Kok, M. (author)
To make informed flood risk management (FRM) decisions in large protected river systems, flood risk and hazard analyses should include the potential for dike breaching. 'Load interdependency' analyses attempt to include the system-wide effects of dike breaching while accounting for the uncertainty of both river loads and dike fragility. The...
journal article 2019
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Roscoe, K. L. (author), Tijssen, A. (author), Nicolai, R. P. (author), Sap, J. (author), Schins, F. (author)
In The Netherlands, inspection and maintenance are essential for maintaining stringent flood protection standards. Flood defences are assessed every 12 years to ensure they meet their risk-based safety standards,which are given as legally-binding maximum failure probabilities. Between assessments, flood defence managers are subject to risk...
conference paper 2019
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), den Heijer, Frank (author), Kok, M. (author)
One of the most rapidly emerging measures in infrastructure asset management is Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), which aims at reducing uncertainty in structural performance by using monitoring equipment. As earthen flood defence structures typically have large strength uncertainties, such techniques can be particularly promising. However,...
journal article 2019
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Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Voortman, H.G. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), van Vuren, S. (author)
This article highlights recent developments in flood risk management in the Netherlands and presents approaches for reliability analysis and asset management for flood defences and hydraulic infrastructure. The functioning of this infrastructure is of great importance for the country as large parts of it are prone to flooding. Based on a...
journal article 2018
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Kok, M. (author), de Bruijn, K.M. (author), Jonkman, S.N. (author), van Overloop, P.J. (author)
In the Netherlands, flood risk analysis is usually carried out for a location, without considering potential flood defence failures in upstream areas. This may result in significant over- or underestimation of flood risks. The effect of upstream failures on failure probabilities and flood risks in other areas is called load interdependence of...
conference paper 2014
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Klerk, F.J.F. (author)
master thesis 1970
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